The doubts will last for as long as the depression, during which the wealthy will be buying up bitcoin like mad. Once Bitcoin heads back into the 100k region, everyone will decide it IS digital gold, and push it up higher, at which point the wealthy will sell off, causing a collapse that the "everyone elsers" essentially pay for, and the cycle will continue.

And that is all bitcoin is. It's all the stock market is, too. A tool for pumping money from 401K plans and the gambling poor into the hands of the wealthy.

Two or three years from now, they will be ubiquitous on the used car market. A lot of cars go to the used market when a leasing contract ends.

Never heard that and at least for both of mine it wasn't true.

Minor point of order good sir, B5, as good as it was, wasn't the first show with a planned multi season story arc. The first American show was Hill Street Blues (1981) and there are earlier examples from the UK including The Prisoner (technically it only counts as 1 season but the story was split into 3 distinct parts with different themes) and Doctor Who would frequently revisit previous story lines. It could also be argued that ST:TNG had a multi season story arc with Q and Picard, they definately got the hang of it with DS9.

It's a bit of a shame what happened with B5, it was originally planned for 5 seasons but WB wouldn't commit to the 5th season so JMS had to wrap it up in the 4th... so he was effectively out of ideas when they greenlit the 5th.

This is one of the biggest signs that AI's about to take a huge stumble and probably a fall as well... Musk is gloating about how much it's going to take off.

A rather significant point of order good sir,

It's not Autism. Actual functional autistic people really don't need the comparison, they're not like Musk at all.

Musk has a complete disconnect from reality and is insulated from the consequences of his actions. This is the ideal environment for an antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) to flourish. Musk might also have ADHD, but again that's not to blame for how he acts and the disregard he has for anyone but himself, that's far more the realm of an ASPD. Autistic people do feel empathy, they're just not able to express themselves normally, people like Musk have no empathy what so ever.

I think we need to stop using autism as an excuse... especially for things like sociopathy and psychopathy.

Just like the Office Ribbon caused a complete breakdown... oh wait, it didn't.

The "users can't accept change" excuse hasn't been valid for nearly 20 years now as almost everyone who grew up without a computer is nearing retirement. It's as stale and wrong as the "but who do I sue if things go wrong" argument (you can't sue MS if things go wrong, they have pages of legalese in the T&Cs expressly to prevent this).

People will adapt, those that don't will just find themselves in crappy, dead end jobs.

This. Bureaucracy is a function of size, not ownership.

I've worked in more small companies (sub 5000 employees) that have far too onerous bureaucracies compared to their size, more political infighting and fiefdoms than any of the government departments I've worked for. You understand why something the size of the NHS has it's bureaucracy, it's fucking massive so it can't function without it... However a mid size consultancy firm shouldn't have more, let alone significantly more and the NHS is pretty efficient once you consider how big it is and how many different functions it has to perform.

They're not that expensive used. My 2nd car was a BMW - 11 years old but in excellent shape (and old gentleman owned it and basically drove it from his garage to his company garage twice a week or so). It cost 8000 Euros. I drove it for years and was very happy with it. Then I sold it for 4000 Euros.

>He was in the right place at the right time, with the right dream.

A statistically unlikely number of times.

Going to Mars personally is no longer in his future for national security reasons.

He's a Martian robot spy send to sabotage the Earth prior to the invasion.

He probably bought shares in the company that makes the bars and considered that good enough.

Duggan: You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
Romana: If YOU wanted an omelette, I'd expect to find a pile of broken crockery, a cooker in flames and an unconscious chef.

I dunno, I.... just connect this scene to Musk's diabolical plans.

Misread that as "lunches" and wondered when SpaceX started hiring hobbits from the Shire.